Russell Brand has once again been charged with sexual crimes.

On Tuesday, Metropolitan Police confirmed that Brand is now charged with two new counts, one of rape and one of sexual assault.

These new charges come on the heels of previous charges filed against the actor in April 2025. The five previous charges involve four women and span "more than two decades," per Reuters.

Brand has denied any criminal sexual misconduct previously.

Former Republican Sen. Ben Sasse of Nebraska announced his terminal diagnosis on Tuesday.

"This is a tough note to write, but since a bunch of you have started to suspect something, I'll cut to the chase: Last week I was diagnosed with metastasized, stage-four pancreatic cancer, and am gonna die," Sasse wrote. "

He is only fifty three. I liked him as a senator.

Politico recently reported that 46% of Americans say their cost of living is the worst that they can remember, including over one-third of Trump voters. Nothing better exemplifies this than the many "30-somethings" who are unable to purchase a home.

While the runaway inflation of the Biden presidency has moderated, widespread concerns about affordability persist.

Freedom cities have been on President Trump's mind for nearly three years at least.

In March 2023, then-former President Trump issued a video statement detailing several plans to revitalize American innovation.

Past generations of Americans pursued big dreams and daring projects that once seemed absolutely impossible. They pushed across an unsettled continent and built new cities in the wild frontier. They transformed American life with the interstate highway system — magnificent, it was. And they launched a vast network of satellites into orbit all around the earth.

But today our country has lost its boldness. Under my leadership, we will get it back in a very big way. If you look at just three years ago, what we were doing was unthinkable — how good it was, how great it was for our country.

Our objective will be a quantum leap in the American standard of living. ... Here are just a few of the ways we can do it.

Almost one-third of the land mass of the United States is owned by the federal government. With just a very, very small portion of that land, just a fraction, one-half of one percent — would you believe that? — we should hold a contest to charter up to 10 new cities and award them to the best proposals for development.

In other words, we'll actually build new cities in our country again. These freedom cities will reopen the frontier, reignite American imagination, and give hundreds of thousands of young people and other people — all hardworking families — a new shot at home ownership and in fact the American dream.
While President Trump's plans have not yet been put into practice in the United States, the idea of a freedom city has already been put into practice in Honduras, for example.

According to Newsweek, Pronomos Capital, a venture capital firm backed by tech billionaires Peter Thiel and Marc Andreessen, has helped push for the creation and development of Prospera ZEDE, a privately run economic zone on parts of Roatan, an island off the coast of Honduras, and on the coast of La Ceiba, Honduras.

According to the company's website, Próspera ZEDE (Zone of Economic Development and Employment) is "a startup zone with a regulatory system designed for entrepreneurs to build better, cheaper, and faster than anywhere else in the world."

However, this economic zone in Honduras has seen its fair share of criticism from locals, pushback from the Honduran government, and legal challenges since its establishment.

Well done Poland.